Priest Word Study | True Words Baptist Church

KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where priest appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 44 verses Exodus 88 verses Leviticus 174139 verses Numbers 6761 verses Deuteronomy 55 verses Joshua 1111 verses Judges 1311 verses 1 Samuel 1918 verses 2 Samuel 11 verses 1 Kings 1717 verses 2 Kings 2520 verses 1 Chronicles 44 verses 2 Chronicles 1917 verses Ezra 88 verses Nehemiah 1010 verses Psalms 11 verses Isaiah 33 verses Jeremiah 1614 verses Lamentations 22 verses Ezekiel 77 verses Hosea 33 verses Amos 11 verses Haggai 55 verses Zechariah 44 verses Matthew 66 verses Mark 99 verses Luke 44 verses John 109 verses Acts 1514 verses Hebrews 2626 verses

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

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HebrewH3548

כֹּהֵן

kôhên · ko-hane'

422 times translated as this KJV form750 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)

Strong's KJV usage: chief ruler, × own, priest, prince, principal officer.

Other KJV renderings

priests 305 priest's 16 own 2 rulers 1 ruler 1 officer 1 princes 1 Priests 1

Strong's first: Genesis 14:18Strong's last: Zechariah 6:13

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GreekG749

ἀρχιερεύς

archiereús · ar-khee-er-yuce'

50 times translated as this KJV form125 total Strong's occurrences

the high-priest (literally, of the Jews, typically, Christ); by extension a chief priest

Strong's KJV usage: :--chief (high) priest, chief of the priests.

Other KJV renderings

priests 65 priest's 4 unto the chief priests 2 a 2 the high priest 1 chief priests 1 which 1

Strong's first: Matthew 26:3Strong's last: Hebrews 13:11

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GreekG2409

ἱερεύς

hiereús · hee-er-yooce'

17 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences

a priest (literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: :--(high) priest.

Other KJV renderings

priests 10 to the priest 3 for the priests 3 the priests 1 unto the priests 1 an 1

Strong's first: Matthew 8:4Strong's last: Hebrews 10:21

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HebrewH3547

כָּהַן

kâhan · kaw-han'

2 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences

v

to officiate as a priest; figuratively, to put on regalia

Strong's KJV usage: deck, be (do the office of a, execute the, minister in the) priest('s office).

Other KJV renderings

priest's office 20 decketh 1

Strong's first: Ezekiel 44:13Strong's last: Hosea 4:6

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AramaicH3549

כָּהֵן

kâhên · kaw-hane'

2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

Strong's KJV usage: priest.

Other KJV renderings

priests 6

Strong's first: Ezra 7:12Strong's last: Ezra 7:21

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GreekG748

ἀρχιερατικός

archieratikós · ar-khee-er-at-ee-kos'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

high-priestly

Strong's KJV usage: :--of the high-priest.

Strong's first: Acts 4:6Strong's last: Acts 4:6

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Leviticus 1:7

H3548

And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:

Leviticus 1:9

H3548

But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Leviticus 1:12

H3548

And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

Leviticus 1:13

H3548

But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Leviticus 1:15

H3548

And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:

Leviticus 1:17

H3548

And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Leviticus 2:2

H3548

And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:

Leviticus 2:8

H3548

And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.

Leviticus 2:9

H3548

And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Leviticus 2:16

H3548

And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Leviticus 3:11

H3548

And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Leviticus 3:16

H3548

And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD's.

Leviticus 4:3

H3548

If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:5

H3548

And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:

Leviticus 4:6

H3548

And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 4:7

H3548

And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Leviticus 4:10

H3548

As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.

Leviticus 4:16

H3548

And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:

Leviticus 4:17

H3548

And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.

Leviticus 4:20

H3548

And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.

Leviticus 4:25

H3548

And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4:26

H3548

And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 4:30

H3548

And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.

Leviticus 4:31

H3548

And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 4:31

H3548

And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

priest

PRIEST, noun [Latin proestes, a chief, one that presides; proe, before, and sto, to stand, or sisto.]

1. A man who officiates in sacred offices. Among pagans, priests were persons whose appropriate business was to offer sacrifices and perform other sacred rites of religion. In primitive ages, the fathers of families, princes and kings were priests. Thus Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Melchizedek, Job, Isaac and Jacob offered their own sacrifices. In the days of Moses, the office of priest was restricted to the tribe of Levi, and the priesthood consisted of three orders, the high priest the priests, and the Levites, and the office was made hereditary in the family of Aaron.

Every priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. Hebrews 5:1.

2. In the modern church, a person who is set apart or consecrated to the ministry of the gospel; a man in orders or licensed to preach the gospel; a presbyter. In its most general sense, the word includes archbishops, bishops, patriarchs, and all subordinate orders of the clergy, duly approved and licensed according to the forms and rules of each respective denomination of christians; as all these orders 'are ordained for men in things pertaining to God.' But in Great Britain, the word is understood to denote the subordinate orders of the clergy, above a deacon and below a bishop. In the United States, the word denotes any licensed minister of the gospel.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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